And who does greater wrong than he who invents a lie concerning God?, by affirming the existence of another besides Him and ascribing an attribute of His, such as His speech and the like, to another? Those, they shall be brought before their Lord, by halting at the first halting place, veiled and forsaken, and the witnesses, the affirmers of Oneness, will say: 'These are they who lied concerning their Lord', by means of [their] idolatrous association. They are then driven away and cursed on account of their idolatrous association, [a sin] which is the gravest of injustice;